Detained Ugandan opposition politician Kizza Besigye has begun a hunger strike as his time spent in detention awaiting trial ...

Laila Soueif has not eaten for 134 days as she campaigns for the release of her pro-democracy activist son from jail in Egypt ...

In 2013, nearly 4,000 California inmates in long-term solitary confinement (for decades, in some cases) went on what would ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside ...

The mother of one of Georgia's dozens of imprisoned protesters says the nation "chose Europe," but is being "taken to Russia" ...

The four-time presidential contender had also refused to see his lawyers in protest against his continued detention ...

Laila Soueif is a mathematician, a university professor, a political activist. But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister's office on day 129 of a hunger ...

The Pakistan Federal Union of Journalists (PFUJ) has announced a nationwide hunger strike from February 12 to 14 against the PECA Act, vowing to fight for press freedom. Journalists, political leaders ...

After 19 long hours, the students of Jahangirnagar University (JU), who were on a hunger strike demanding the abolition of ...

Laila Soueif, mathematician and mother, is on a hunger strike to free her son, Alaa Abd el-Fattah, a political activist imprisoned in Egypt. Despite her health declining, Soueif pleas for ...

"The health condition of my father has deteriorated as his hunger strike enters its 8th day. He has been shifted to RML ...

But as she slumped in a folding chair outside the gates of the British prime minister’s office on day 129 of a hunger strike, she was just a mother — a mom trying to win freedom for her son ...